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No. 277,515. Patnted May 15,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. SCOTT, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

SHOW-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,515, dated May 15, 1883.

Applicationfiled February 8,1883. (NomodelJ the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention is a new and improved showbox for exhibiting cutlery or other articles in a show-case, its object being to afford a means whereby the packing-boxes in which such goods are shipped and received may be placed on edge'in the show-case, and at the sanietime the samples exhibited may be securely retained in position on the upper exposed edges of the boxes. The form and construction of the box is fully explained in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box;

. Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cover; Fig.

, 0, slides over both boxes.

3, a vertical longitudinal section of the box and cover in position for displaying goods; Fig. 4, a vertical transverse section of same, and Fig. 5 a perspective of the cover with supplemental box attached thereto instead of to the main box.

. As shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the device is the combination of a main packing-box, A, and a supplemental display-box, B, formed integrally therewith, the supplemental box being on one of the edges of the main box, and the two being separated by a partition of the same material as the box. An ordinary telescope-cover, When put on in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 it closes the main box, but leaves the supplemental box open; but when put on in a reverse position it closes both boxes.

The use of the device is evident. Any desired articles may be packed in the main box alone or in that and the supplemental box, and, the cover being put on in such a position as to close both boxes, the goods are securely held in place and are ready for shipment. When placed in the show-case for exhibition the cover is reversed, leaving the supplemental box open, and, a sample being placed therein, the box is set on edge and the sample is held in place, and at the same time the box takes up much less space than it flat on its side.

The main box may open at one edge instead of on the flat side, as shown; but I consider the form shown preferable.

Fig. 5 shows the supplemental box attached to the outside of the cover instead of the main box. This form would accomplish the same result as the other; but I think it best to attach the supplemental box to the main box.

Having now described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination of a main packing-box, a supplemental display-box formed integrally therewith, and a reversible cover adapted to close both of said boxes when in one position, and when reversed to close said main box, while leaving said supplemental box open,

substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

Intestimony w hereoflhave signed this specification in the presence of two subseribing'witnesses.

CHARLES E. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

Osona TAYLOR, 0. L. TAYLOR. 

